In a far more severe increase than in previous years, reported sexual assaults rose by 181 percent last year at Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus. The school also logged sizable upticks in incidents such as rape and fondling.
The Johns Hopkins Counseling Center received 101 confidential reports of sexual assault in 2017, a nearly threefold bump from the 36 reports recorded one year before, according to the latest Annual Security and Fire Safety Report. Confidentially reported sexual assaults have climbed in previous years, but by smaller margins—from 21 to 32 between 2014 and 2015, and from 32 to 36 in 2016.
“The university has worked in recent years to enhance its policy and processes on sexual misconduct, to increase the staffing in the Office of Institutional Equity, and to make students, faculty and staff more aware of the resources available to them,” Hopkins spokesman Dennis O’Shea wrote in an email Friday. “That, and increased national attention to issues of sexual assault and sexual misconduct, has likely increased the rate of reporting of such offenses.”
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